Man Utd v Liverpool in the Champions League, please.

I'll cover the Inter game before I discuss our footballing lesson at the hands of Liverpool.

We won 2-0. We were woeful. Yet, we won.

OK, that's the Inter game covered.

Onto Saturday then...

I put a large portion of the blame onto our esteemed manager, who was maybe one too many whiskies down the line when he handed his team sheet in for this one.

Anderson? Seriously? In a game of this magnitude, you pair Carrick and Anderson together, and then decide to supplement that with Ji Sung Park? So basically you're inviting Liverpool onto you, the game after they've just won 4-0 against Read Madrid... Oh and guess what two players appeared in our 2-1 loss at Anfield in September? Anderson and Carrick. Inspired, Sir Alex. I doff my cap to you.

Well, at least you won't have made the mistake of picking Carlos Tevez up front.

Wait... what? YOU HAVE?!

Jesus is weeping openly at this stage.

End result of these choices?

A team devoid of any attacking presence in the centre of midfield, allowing Liverpool to put two players on Ronaldo at all times. The crowd around me loved having a moan about Ronaldo's failures all day, but for all Javier Mascherano's drawbacks he is a fantastic man-marker (his performance against Kaká in Athens was testament to that) and this coupled with Fabio Aurelio forcing the Portuguese inside (something Ronaldo normally revels in) towards the Argentine captain was enough to keep him quiet all day. This freed up acres of space in the centre of the park but sadly Anderson doesn't have the footballing brain to see such a thing and was a passenger for his much too lengthy stay on the pitch.

Anderson has ability, but is having a shocking second season and needs a stint in the reserves to realise the basics once more. Paul Scholes may have played on Wednesday night, but with the space afforded in centre midfield all day, he could have ran the show. So could Ryan Giggs, for that matter, who thrived in a similar game against Chelsea in January.

As for Tevez, well, not much needs to be said. Woeful positionally again, doesn't commit players, doesn't beat enough players and has a disgraceful shooting ability for one so lauded. Sadly, running around aimlessly all day still pushes some fans' buttons.

The back four had a mare. Simple as that. No excuses to be made. It happens. Given the number of games they've excelled in now for two and more years, I won't single any of them out and just say that days like Saturday are few and far between and sadly one came on the worst day possible. If they'd been on top form, we'd have struggled to have kept a superb Torres quiet and off the score sheet.

Rooney was wasted in exactly the same manner as from around 2004 to 2006 (and tellingly in the Anfield fixture this season) as a winger and could do nothing to impact the game, which wasn't his fault as he has never been a winger despite Ferguson's insistence that the biggest games mean playing your best player out of position.

By the time Ferguson made the much needed subs, he messed up again by destroying any shape we still had. It was 2-1 at the time, so no mad panic, but he abandoned all semblance of a formation by removing Michael Carrick, our best player at gelling the team together, Ji Sung Park who was our best player on the day and Tevez, which was his only good decision at any stage in the game. The three subs did the sum total of nothing but I doubt anyone could have in the system we were employing.

Rooney was now moved to the other wing, with Ronaldo suffering the same baffling treatment. Berbatov and Tevez went up front with Scholes and Giggs in midfield. I think. It was hard to tell what was going on before my eyes.

Ferguson's drivel about being the better team was expected, he rarely gets too critical during the season, and hopefully this will be a one off in what could be a season to eclipse 1998-99.

When the Champions League is drawn on Friday, I want Liverpool. I didn't before but now they are the only team I want to see. If we were to put them out of their beloved European Cup, the momentum would have shifted right back to Old Trafford and should put an end to their season. It should be the side that our players and Ferguson want to see, too.

Go on UEFA, rig it. You know you don't want the potential carnage of Man Utd versus Liverpool versus Rome.

I'd even want the second leg at Anfield.